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2012 Democratic National Platform

Moving America Forward

In 2008, Democrats, independents, and many Republicans came together as Americans to move our country forward. We were in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the previous administration had put two wars on our nation’s credit card, and the American Dream had slipped out of reach for too many.

Today, our economy is growing again, al-Qaeda is weaker than at any point since 9/11, and our manufacturing sector is growing for the first time in more than a decade. But there is more we need to do, and so we come together again to continue what we started.

What follows is our 2012 platform—a declaration of how we plan to move America forward over the next four years and beyond.

The most important thing we can do! VOTE!

Tomorrow, you can help determine not just the outcome of this election, but our country's future.

You made the difference in 2008. Now, once again, you can defy the conventional wisdom that says you can't overcome the cynicism of our politics; you can't overcome the special interests and the big money; you can't tackle our biggest challenges.

This movement has never backed down from a tough fight -- and we're not about to start.

"Joe The Plumber" Don't Vote

A plant by McCain? The Oct. Surprise? Is this the best he could do?

The surprise was on McCain because he thought people were to stupid to check out Joe and then it looks like Joe has a tax lien! Say It Ain't So Joe!

I found it odd that when the local news station did an interview with him that he was confused most of his life about where he was born? Disappointed to find out that he was a Yankee instead of a Southerner. What being a Southerner would give you permission to be a racist? (He did say that Obama danced around like Sammy Davis Jr.) I'm assuming he meant on the issues but who knows what all of these "Joes" really mean?-Mem

Off The Bus-Huff-10-16-08

The whole world is wondering today: "Who IS Joe the Plumber?" the everyman voter made famous in the final presidential debate last night for being referenced repeatedly by John McCain and addressed directly at one point by Barack Obama.

Cable news gave the impression that the man is just Samuel "average Joe" Wurzelbacher, from Holland, Ohio, who is looking to expand his business and believes that Barack Obama's proposed tax plan will actually cause him to lose money if he does so. He put his question on taxes to Obama in person while the Illinois Senator was canvassing in the Toledo suburb on Sunday. Plumber Joe later said Obama "tap dance[d] ... almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr." in the conversation and implied in an interview after the debate that he would vote for John McCain.

It might be heartening to McCain to know that he has at least one vote in Democratic stronghold Lucas County, Ohio, but for one small fact. A download of the Lucas County voter rolls from the Ohio Secretary of State's website lists four Wurzelbachers, two in Holland, but none of them named Sam or Joe or Samuel Joseph. There's a Robert Lee and a Frank Edward Wurzelbacher, but no Joe.

THE AMERICAN PROMISE-FROM THE WOMEN FOR OBAMA

IF YOU ARE A MOM, GRANDMA, AUNT, SISTER OR BEST FRIEND THEN WE ASK THAT YOU PASS THIS ON. TAKE THIS VIDEO VIRAL TO REMIND THE COUNTRY WHY WE MUST VOTE THIS YEAR. WE MUST STAND UNITED TO CHANGE THIS COUNTRY! IF YOU ARE A FATHER, GRANDPA, UNCLE, BROTHER OR BEST FRIEND THEN STAND WITH US TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN AND THEIR FUTURE! -MEM